Our careers blog highlights the expertise and experiences of Goodlord's different team members.
Collaboration was key in the move to remote working during lockdown, and Goodlord's Product Design team saw it as an opportunity to learn and improve, as Product Designer Emir Alili explains.
For International Women's Day, this year's campaign theme is to #BreakTheBias. Here's a breakdown of what Goodlord's doing internally to help support this mission.
Andrea Warmington, Senior Content Strategist, is the brains behind Goodlord's evolving content strategy, which grew from a simple blog to a full multimedia content hub with webinars, e-books, reports, downloadable resources, news updates, and much more. Here's how she did it.
Ali Venerandi, Rent Collection Manager, has gone through quite a transition in his five years at Goodlord. This is how he evolved and what he's enjoyed most about his time here so far.
Sometimes you hear engineering terms, without fully understanding what they mean in reality. Brian Muyambo, Front End Engineer at Goodlord, had this experience with microservices so he researched more about the topic - and this is what he learned.
Kerry Barber, our Head of Compliance, joined Goodlord in 2021 to build up the compliance and quality assurance framework in our fast-growing business. Read on to learn what that means for Goodlordians and our customers.
Our Referencing team is remote-based and the People team works hard to make sure that everyone feels part of the Goodlord culture, through communicating well and recreating that office feeling - as two Referencing Goodlordians explain.
A lot of Goodlordians join from across the property industry, bringing invaluable industry expertise to the business - and benefitting from a great work-life balance in return, as Gareth Fitzhugh, Business Development Executive, explains.
As Covid-19 restrictions on working from home come to an end, we decided to delve into what working at Goodlord should look like in the future - and the hybrid model came out on top. Here's how we successfully set up our hybrid workspace.
When Goodlord moved to remote working in 2020, engagement and productivity were front of mind as Goodlord has always had a strong company culture and we didn't want to lose that. Feedback from Goodlordians is the key - and here's how we gather it and use it to make relevant changes.
The last couple of years have been difficult for us all. The pandemic forced us to be away from the office and it caused disruptions. The focus quickly switched to how we can maintain our standards, and it was more important than ever to maintain that sense of camaraderie we once had. Now that there’s light at the end of the tunnel and we’re slowly getting back to normality, I want to take this opportunity to look back at what helped us during this challenging period.
Topics: Engineering
This year's global campaign for International Women's Day (IWD) is to #BreakTheBias. The aim is to imagine a gender equal world, free of bias and discrimination - and work towards making that a reality. The campaign asks us to consider how we can take action as individuals, and Goodlord's Diversity Club has set up a number of initiatives to help Goodlordians do just that.
It started with a blog. That blog, which was updated once a week, along with a single white paper, was the extent of Goodlord's content marketing programme when I joined the business in 2018. But as Goodlord has scaled, so too has its content strategy. Now, the blog is just one element of our industry leading content marketing programme, which has grown to encompass regular white papers, data indexes, industry-wide surveys and reports, on-demand webinars, and even a podcast. We've also doubled both our mailing list and traffic every year along the way and, ultimately, helped to build awareness of Goodlord as a brand and cemented it as a thought leader. But it didn't happen overnight. Content, as everyone knows, is a long game.
I recently celebrated five years at Goodlord, which still boggles my mind. This marks the longest time I have spent doing... well, anything! I joined when Goodlord had about 30 people and we are now over 250. In those five years, I have moved house twice and can truly say that both were horrendous experiences - if only I'd used Goodlord! That alone is reason enough to work here, but I wanted to share what else has kept me at Goodlord for over half a decade now.
Have you found yourself nodding along to a conversation about microservices - without fully understanding them? I used to find myself in meetings with more senior members of the team discussing the subject and honestly having no idea what was actually going on. If you find yourself in the same situation, what I've learned to better follow, understand and participate in conversations around microservices might help you stop plotting your escape into friendlier topics.
Topics: Engineering
My role at Goodlord is Head of Compliance, which means I'm responsible for the day-to-day activity of the Compliance team, including quality assurance. This involves providing advice, guidance, and support to all areas of the business, raising awareness of regulations, and enhancing governance controls. Ultimately, I have to ensure the compliance monitoring plan for the year is delivered, which in turn provides oversight and evidence of our compliance with regulatory requirements.
Goodlord operates on a hybrid basis and that means that some teams are completely remote-based, including Referencing. Here are two Referencing Executives, Art Hyrst and Carly Jo Bosson, to explain what their day-to-day looks like and how they find the remote-working experience.
Gareth Fitzhugh, Business Development Executive at Goodlord, was previously a lettings negotiator and chose to bring that lettings experience to a new challenge at Goodlord in 2021. Here are his thoughts on how that's working out.
At Goodlord, working from home has shown some clear benefits, such as boosting employee mental health and wellbeing, meeting efficiency, and overall employee productivity. This was the result of a deliberate effort to keep Goodlordian morale high and company culture alive and kicking throughout lockdown. Now, we're looking to the future and, for us, the future is a hybrid workspace.
Understanding how we can help our employees feel engaged with their job and the company is no mean feat, but an important task to undertake, especially with everyone working from home as a company for the first time. We found that the best way to gain this understanding is by asking the right questions in the right way.
